Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Mirror
Well obviously i had some trouble trying to understand what whas going on in this movie but lets start at the beginning when the lady is standing at the fence. She is approached by a man who just comes walking out of the somwhere and he starts talking to her then he just leaves and we never see him again but i think im not sure that it might be that man's voice that narrates a few times through the film. Another thing i noticed in that scene was that the was a strong gust of wind and this re-appeared at the end of the filmmaybe to show that the characters ended up back in the same place. Later in the film the main charcter lady looks into a mirror and it turns into an old lady and we later see the old lady again walking in the field with children and maybe this symbolizes how quickly people's lives go bye without them realizing it. Another scene i found interesting was with the boy in the house by himself when suddenly a mysterious lady appears and starts telling him oreders then she dissapears and i wonder if the boy had some kind of disease. Another thing was that there were so many characters in this film and they all seemed to be rather irrelevant for the most part and I kept thinking that we would see some of them again and we never did. In the end i was left very confused by this film and I am interested to discover the actual plot of it.
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I remember that I too had many of the same questions you have after my first viewing. And I too had thought that perhaps the doctor who approaches her in the field might be the narrator--because their voices are indeed a bit similar. But they are different people (the doctor never appears again.
ReplyDeleteBut I really do think it's good the first time not to know some of the "clues" of the film--because it causes us to look around at what's going on and notice a lot of the cinematic details that we might miss.
One key thing that I missed the first time I watched it (and I think you're sort of supposed to miss this) is that the narrator's wife and mother are played by the same woman; and the narrator as a boy (named Alyosha) and the narrator's son (whose name is Ignat) are played by the same kid.
I think it's important that we too go through the same process of confusion--because that is exactly what's happening in the narrator's head. He's not able to stop and say, "OK, this is now my wife I'm looking at", etc.